reCAPTCHA has become increasingly less user friendly over time, back when it was first released it was very usable but sadly it appears as though in their attempts to slow down the bots they've sadly had to make it as bad as what it replaced. As for whether Google's book copying program is (well was, they actually have consent for the most part now) a good thing to encourage, I'm not so sure, but then I doubt when they see money in something they need any encouraging .

Edit: And perhaps I rather missed the main point. As said by others, reCAPTCHA is broken and from what I remember reading it has been for a while now so unless they take a dramatic change in approach I'm not sure how they'll improve it without being reduced to making the text so unreadable that you'll have to spend ten minutes examining the reCAPTCHA pixel by pixel. Or use a bot to do it for you .

That does seem an interesting approach, I would assume it would take a few months, perhaps a year for the bots to get through that if the two types of object / animal are of a similar colour and size in the picture. It also seems relatively user friendly.

Though does it work without JavaScript? And the same with Nucaptcha, if that relies on video will that work for those without the required plug-in / browser, and also what about those using mobile devices or with slow connections?

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Asirra is unsupported and unusable without Javascript. I've been in touch with the authors to ask if these problems will be resolved, and they will not, as Asirra was only ever a research project. Therefore, Asirra is not suitable as a generic CAPTCHA system for XenForo.

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reCAPTCHA has become increasingly less user friendly over time, back when it was first released it was very usable but sadly it appears as though in their attempts to slow down the bots they've sadly had to make it as bad as what it replaced.

Edit: And perhaps I rather missed the main point. As said by others, reCAPTCHA is broken and from what I remember reading it has been for a while now so unless they take a dramatic change in approach I'm not sure how they'll improve it without being reduced to making the text so unreadable that you'll have to spend ten minutes examining the reCAPTCHA pixel by pixel.

And yes, my experience (on my vB3.8 platform) is that reCAPTCHA is indeed broken, because the spam keeps coming and coming. Just last week I decided to use the Q&A Captcha for the first time... and I tell you I have should done that much sooner: no spam whatsoever anymore!

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Though does it work without JavaScript? And the same with Nucaptcha, if that relies on video will that work for those without the required plug-in / browser, and also what about those using mobile devices or with slow connections?

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Not to drag up an old thread, but was this ever looked at seriously? I think it can be useful to offer these types of options. Especially for those of us who no longer enjoy recaptch and how incredibly hard it can be to read. It actually turns registrants off.

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... I was a bit skeptical at first. But seeing the video, I actually think this is a really really nice reCaptcha replacement. Their text is clear, clean, easy to read. Compare to those reCaptcha text that are so impossible to read for human. I sometimes even think that reCaptcha are made to be read by bots.